"Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives" [Marcus Aurelius]

"Even when the winds of adversity blow, our Father keeps us anchored to our hope." [Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]

"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them" [Carl Schurz]

"We are all caught up in an inescapable web of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever effects one directly effects all indirectly" [Martin Luther King]

"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace" [Albert Schweitzer]

"And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord"

"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance" [Pablo Casals]

"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it" [Alex Morrison]

"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at" [Laurence Stern]

"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them" [Ralph Gerard]

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet" [Joseph Joubert]

"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven" [George Herbert]

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future" [Paul Boese]

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference" [Elie Wiesel]

"Trying to fix or change something, only guarantees and perpetuates its existence"

"It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test" [Mahalia Jackson]

"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward" [Igor Sikorsky]

"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love" [Barbara Sher]

"The promise of another tomorrow keeps you going for today"

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called" [John Stuart Mil]

"A mirror is only as good as the reflection in it"

"Find something you truly believe in and everything else will have meaning as well"

"Melt the icy fingers of fear, with the sunshine of hope"

"There's a miracle called Friendship, that dwells in the heart. You don't know how it happens or when it gets it start"

"Look back to where you have been, for a clue to where you are going"

"Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people" [Tobias S. Gibson]

"Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state" [Samuel Davies]

"The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication" [Cecil B. De Mille]

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time" [Joe Girard]

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth" [Marcus Aurelius]

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded" [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy" [Jim Rohn]

"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore" [Dale Carnegie]

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments" [Henry Ward Beecher]

"When a woman is healthy, she is beautiful" [Martha Matilda Harper]

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" [Dolores Ibarruri]

"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive [Audre Lorde]

"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator" [Maria Montessori]

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart" [Dorothy Day]

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" [T.S. Eliot]

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people" [Victor Borge]

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us" [Oliver Wendell Holmes]

"To be successful requires humility. You must accept the defeats as well as the wins"

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead" [Bertrand Russell]

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy" [Cynthia Nelms]

"People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost" [H. Jackson Brown, Jr.]

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them" [Mother Theresa]

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it" [W. M. Lewis]

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage" [Lao-Tzu]

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" [Victor Hugo]

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real" [Tupac Shakur]

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress" [Frederick Douglass]

"Home is where you want to be when you're in need of love…When I was a child, you did so much for me -You cared for me, thought of little treats to surprise me, comforted me when I hurt myself…As I grew older, you taught me to do things for myself and gradually I became more confident…But, even now, on days when everything goes wrong, I still want to come home -to my mum!" [A message to mum]

"It is in dreaming the greatest dreams…seeking the highest goals…that we build the brightest tomorrows. This is your day…a day to hope, to dream, a day for relaxing, for remembering, but most of all -your day to enjoy!"

"A hug is a great gift -one size fits all, it can be given for any occasion and it's easy to exchange"

"Three small words can help to lift the burdens…"Can I Help?"

"You can't hurt your eyes by looking on the bright side"

"The real message of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity"

"Success must be felt within before it can be seen on the outside"

"Wealth lies not in the extent of possessions, but in the fewness of wants"

"Love is something you cannot give away entirely. It always comes back to you"

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people"

"Look at what you have, rather than what you don't have"

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing" [John Powell]

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" [Mahatma Gandhi]

"The Lord choose's not a path for His children but is happy to show a guiding and watching spirit for whatever path we may take to choose. Providing you are happy within yourself and you are not knowingly harming anyone else you are doing no wrong"

"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from" [Elizabeth Kuber-Ross]

"Where there is love there is life" [Mahatma Gandhi]

"There is no disguise which can hid love for long where it exists, or stimulate it where it does not" [La Rochefoucauld]

"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn't go away" [Philip K. Dick]

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you got it made" [Groucho Marx]

"Reach for the stars, then you can fall to the moon"

"Life is full of risks - growing up is about facing them"

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him" [Booker T. Washington]

"What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell"

"A well-spent day brings happy sleep" [Leonardo da Vinci]

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